The interview posed questions about her focus on artificial intelligence and its impact on predictive policing and sentencing programs, among other topics.

Here’s an excerpt: “The move toward using AI, or quantitative methods, in criminal justice is at least in part a response to a growing acknowledgment that there’s racial bias in policing. A selling point for a lot of people is that they think a computer can’t be racist, that an algorithm can’t be racist. I wanted to challenge the idea that just because it’s a computer making the predictions, that it would solve those problems.”